So at the beginning of the Dark Knight Rises, Bane asks “Maybe he’s wondering why you’d bother to shoot someone before throwing them out of a plane.”

At least she’ll really have something to be angry about now... ;-)

Why backhand the airline, when they did the right thing? Also, that seat does have a cost and they just booted a paying customer. If we’re going to drag companies through the mud for doing the right thing, then they never will.

This story is significantly more uplifting than I expected it to be.

Hopefully the airlines are sharing the “disruptive passenger” lists with each other.

Is Jez really doing a story about “how will the short little black lady swim”??? About the most amazing U.S. amateur female athlete? Yikes.

Dementia is cruel. Alzheimers is cruel. Something that is a distraction may be better than the fight, especially since it’s cruel not only to the one that has it, but their loved ones, caretakers, and even the random public.

Exactly. This article is actually almost universally bad advice; in most cases, all of the data on your work computer should not leave the work computer. That usually includes all correspondence, code or articles you’ve written, everything.

I’m getting the same vibe with this article that I got from Heather’s article a while back about the Cops in Spider-Man, and I’ll say basically the same thing here as I said there.

The show is a work of escapist fiction and, first and foremost, a COMEDY. To ask it to completely change what it is at the core to reflect…

Exactly. Them continuing to exist as cops give them an opportunity to deal with current issues that they couldn’t if they were private eyes.

This makes you the opposite of cynical.

Maybe I’m cynical, but I have trouble believing that we, as a society, can function without any sort of policing whatsoever. If the ultimate answer is that caring about serving your community effectively and justly means resigning from serving as a police officer, doesn’t that just mean that the only police officers…

Or that he didn’t actually get away with it.  My first thought, “No kidding.  He is actually going to trial for this.  That’s nice for a change.” 

I don’t think he was in the parking lot, he was parked in the drive-thru, likely blocking other customers.

It was always going to get worse. The point of the lockdown was to keep the strain off the hospitals. Most hospitals are back to pre-corona levels so now we can open things back up slowly and the hospitals won’t be overloaded. If they start getting overloaded we cinch back down again for a bit.

Counterpoint: Whoever would have been cast missed the entire clusterfuck. 

Doc Ock was played by a woman in Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse, and it was fantastic. I think we’re long past all that. Unless the character and their background is SO specific that it NEEDS to be a person of a specific gender or color (as in your example of Black Panther), let the actor define the character, not…

I hope I live long enough to see the day when hiring a black person for a job isn’t “weird.”

In the commentary track, they talk about how since Bob’s so much bigger than Helen, it was really hard for it to not come off as abusive as he towered over her and yelled — which is why in the final version, she uses her stretching powers as she gets angrier until by the final moments of the fight, when they’re both…

I love all the Incredibles, but Helen Parr is easily in my top 5 superheroes of all time. You know how they have those stupid polls on Facebook, “Pick Your Superhero Team” or whatever? I’m just like, “Whichever one Helen Parr is on.”